Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:26:06PM -0800, Evandro Menezes wrote:
>   
>> While it's a good thing that they dumped OpenNTP, the scoring system
>> should have demoted it before the need to contact them arose, IMO.
>>     
>
> It's even worse than you imagine...
>
> http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/140.99.51.114
> http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/140.99.51.115
>
> These servers are running OpenNTPD and they both have scores of 20.
> Something must be done to prevent this. Just look at the nasty offset
> history. It's outrageous!
>
>   
The obvious answer is to try and detect open ntpd (easy enough if n 
quires return n different refid's it's openntp) and then reject the 
server because it's not going to be reliable.

John
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